Comments on The Weekly Crisis - Comic Book Review Blog: Weekly Crisis Comic Book Reviews for 07/01/09

I completely disagree with "(Bryan Hitch's artwork...

2009-07-06T12:11:18.149-03:00

I completely disagree with "(Bryan Hitch's artwork) is far worse than anything he's been doing on Fantastic Four." Butch Guice is probably the only saving grace of what made Bryan's art on Reborn good (not great.) His stuff on FF is just going down hill fast. It's sloppy, inked by three different people on every issue, and just bad. Fortunately, we won't have to worry about that anymore, as last issue was well, his last. (Since Stuart Immonen is doing the next issue, and last issue of the Hitch/Millar run.)

When Cap was killed in CA #25, how thoroughly was ...

2009-07-06T01:50:40.603-03:00

When Cap was killed in CA #25, how thoroughly was the corpse examined in subsequent issues? With all the talk in REBORN #1 about how a magic gun was used, how Cap is dead and isn't -- well, it doesn't matter whether a "magic" gun was used if the body is physically dead. If the body was in some sort of suspended animation and not decomposing, even a cursory examination would have detected that.

MARVEL DIVAS #1 wasn't terrible, but certainly wasn't good. Its origin as a "slices of life" miniseries is obvious. The cancer plot element is jarring, given the tone of the rest of the issue, and could easily be a shallow and clumsy plot element. It might have better to have one of the heroines contract genital herpes, and then have her set out to punish the S.O.B. who was responsible.

SRS

I agree with your review of Batman and Robin #2 I...

2009-07-06T00:10:25.799-03:00

I agree with your review of Batman and Robin #2

I disagree with giving an Avoid It to Reborn #1, while it wasn't great, I still give it a Check It for some good storytelling and some good art.

So Firestar has cancer? Uhuh. I know continuity is...

2009-07-05T14:25:08.423-03:00

So Firestar has cancer? Uhuh. I know continuity is a five letter word at Marvel these days but Hank Pym got rid of any chance of Angelica ever getting cancer back in Busiek's Avengers run. Remember? He made her wear a special mesh under her uniform that leecher away any cancer giving radiation emitted whenever she used her powers? He said that with enough time she would never have to worry about cancer again. Playing the cancer card now? Cheap , Marvel , cheap cheap cheap cheap...

I am kind of torn up about Captain America - Rebor...

2009-07-05T10:07:29.414-03:00

I am kind of torn up about Captain America - Reborn. On one hand, I agree with you on a lot of things, the art does look rushed and the fact that Marvel decided to hyper promote a story to the mainstream public that relies on such cliched comic book tropes is astonishing.

Something that bothered me as well was that Sharon said that the Red Skull and Zola kept calling her "The Constant", but I don't remember happening. Maybe I just dismissed it once, but I certainly don't remember it being a constant thing.

On the other hand, I have the utmost faith in Brubaker. He's done around 50 or so great Captain America issues, completely revivng the franchise. I am hoping that this series won't be as straight forward as things seem right now.

I think a great twist would be that Sharon, Bucky and co. aren't able to rescue him from the time stream, and Cap is forced ro re-live his life, knowing exactly everything that is going to happen to him in the future. This would also serve as a launching point for a new Captain America series set in WW2, which would coincide with the release of the Cap movie, which is also going to be set in the past. That way we keep Bucky as Cap in the present, and Steve as Cap in the past.

Speaking of Bucky, what the hell is going to be happening in the main Cap title? I hope it's not just going to be threading water while Reborn is going on.

The last panel in Batman and Robin was a different...

2009-07-05T09:37:55.986-03:00

The last panel in Batman and Robin was a different scene, it cut from Robin being beat up to the dolls suicide bombing in a Gotham street. The two characters that were not featured in the rest of the issue were just random civilians.

I remain hard pressed to find any difference betwe...

2009-07-05T04:13:36.094-03:00

I remain hard pressed to find any difference between "Firestar Has Cancer" and "Catwoman Had Her Heart Removed By A Batman Fanboy And A Hobo, And THAT Was What Made Her Lose Confidence After All This Time".